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  1. Re:Here is what I do on Visual Autopsy Of An ATM Card Skimmer · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but you could put the money in some sort of interest bearing account or investment vehicle and eventually pay off the original withdrawal. Might take a while given the low rates we are now experiencing, though.

  2. Re:Christ, WE KNOW on Broadband Over Power Lines: Coming Soon? · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Try to (legally) use a CB to talk to someone half way across the world, it's not happening.

    Oddly enough, a recent technological innovation allows erxactly this type globally spanning communication to occur without the use of radio waves bouncing through the atmosphere. The name for this new marvel is the telephone, look for one in your neighborhood soon!

  3. Re:Terraforming ain't so easy. on Venus: The Forgotten Planet · · Score: 1

    "'Oh he disagrees with me he must be a fringe nut' is a typical liberal mantra," is a typical conservative mantra. It doesn't really matter what color your blinders are, they're still blinders.

  4. Re:venus is a forgotten planet? on Venus: The Forgotten Planet · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the demonstration of /. reading comprehension dipping to a new low. The poster said value, ie scientific value, not profit, which you apparently pulled out of your ass. Please put it back, it stinks.

  5. Re:Classic Cringly from PBS! on Morphing Code to Prevent Reverse Engineering? · · Score: 1

    Unless Microsoft is now the government, none of the examples you listed are forms of political speech.

  6. Re:Been done before! on Lindows becomes Lindash · · Score: 1

    Wow. I drink their wine all the time. It's good, cheap, natural, and local (to me). This story makes me want to drink as much as I can. Maybe I'll give up beer...

  7. Re:Comcast and Disney on Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66 Billion · · Score: 1

    I know. It looks like a perfect storm of evil.

  8. Re:Why teach programmers, period on Learn How to Program Using Any Web Browser · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hope you like poop.

  9. Re:this is how Jean-Claude Van Damme did it on Two Blanks Against the Trend · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind having Jean Claude Van Damme's bankroll.

  10. Re:It's competetively priced on Why iPod Mini is a smart move for Apple · · Score: 1
    'cool' is what apes to to make themselves attractive to other apes.

    ...said the domesticated primate.

  11. Re:Wrong perspective on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1

    You can get it in NYC.

  12. Re:Dairy-aire??? on Clean Nuclear Launches? · · Score: 1

    You've never been behind me when I've had too much cheese. I don't think I can generate significant lift, unfortunately.

  13. Re:What is special? on 61-inch Wide Plasma Monitor · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're mixing English and Metric units. Don't try to watch this TV on Mars.

  14. Re:Pay foreigners US minumum wage! on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1

    Actually I understood what you wrote. If this is causing problems, try writing what you mean next time, rather something else.

  15. Re:Pay foreigners US minumum wage! on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1
    True, but the comment I replied to posited the moving of headquarters, not reincorporation in a different jurisdiction.

    For your information.

  16. Re:Pay foreigners US minumum wage! on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. Sure, it's a nice spot to visit on a vacation, but do you really think a mass-exodus Greenwich, CT stuffed shirts to the Caymans is really likely, let alone possible? Put the pipe down.

  17. Re:moving jobs overseas on Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas · · Score: 1

    The problem is, the biggest market for the products these Indian engineers are producing is back here in the US. If the workforce here isn't making enough money to but the products produced there, then we both end up out of a job. American rapaciousness is the engine that drives the world economy. If we stop consuming at the levels we have been, indeed if our consumption does not continually grow, the world may be plunged into another global depression.

  18. Re:Mr. Gates on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    The Mr. Gates in question is Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  19. Re:Who? on Interview with Bruce Sterling · · Score: 1
    And I would say that almost everyone with a High School education has read a book.

    Can I come live in Eggheadtopia with you? It must be divine.

  20. Re:A Game Is Freedom of Speech on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Like Jose Padilla? Oh, wait, which one is he again?

  21. Re:Front seat passenger on California Bans Front-Seat Computer Use · · Score: 1
    s/tiny lines of code/pr0n/g
  22. Re:Whats the big deal? on Japan: VoIP for the Masses With 050 · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm not a naive user

    Not a naive user? I think you'd have to be pretty naive to slashdot your own phone ;) Thankfully goatse.cx loses a lot of impact when someone is describing it over the phone...

  23. Re:I inquired with my county about testing my wate on Measuring Pollution In Humans · · Score: 1

    Manhattan (there's no e, btw) has some of the best drinking water of any major city in the US, coming from relatively pristine sources in the Catskills.

  24. Re:what's the point for movies? on Tech Titans Prepare to Battle Over Next DVD Format · · Score: 1

    RTFA. High Definition TV. HTH.

  25. Re:As if there was any doubt on A Doe, a Deer, a Deer, a Deer... · · Score: 1
    Around here in northern Iowa, they are thicker than cattle.

    That's a thick deer. WHat are they eating, McDonald's?